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Hi guys............

Well things are falling into place but.....slowly!!!
Now I am making two objects and this is the situation:

I need to make the glass cage of a control tower transparent...but
can´t find the way to do that!!!.............also I made a beacon tower
out of some skinny triangles and want to "open it up" so they look
like steal beams...but again can´t make the "holes"!!!!...

Any suggestions on how to : Make transparent objects in FSDS ????:eek:

Thanks in advance..........
 
solid said:
Hi guys............

Well things are falling into place but.....slowly!!!
Now I am making two objects and this is the situation:

I need to make the glass cage of a control tower transparent...but
can´t find the way to do that!!!.............also I made a beacon tower
out of some skinny triangles and want to "open it up" so they look
like steal beams...but again can´t make the "holes"!!!!...

Any suggestions on how to : Make transparent objects in FSDS ????:eek:

Thanks in advance..........
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For a scenery object, if I assume you are NOT going to use reflective surfaces, merely paint the windows on the texture and use the alpha value to control the transparency (presuming you are using FSDS3, do NOT click "has reflect map" on you makemdl options.
 
Well I have tried everything but I still can´get a "transparent window"!! I tried to fire up the Boolean tool and the thing does not "start" at all........:confused:

Can someone give me a hand here?......I made a pretty nice control tower but the glass cage is still not transparent at all!!!!!:(
 
Gera,

It's just as Felix said, but maybe I can make it simpler:

1. Make an object that you would like to be transparent.
2. While the part is highlighted in the workspace, right click the mouse and select properties.
3. Click the materials button on the parts properties popup.
4. Select New on the materials page. This should pull up the color boxes for selection.
5. Select the color you'd like to make the transparency from.
7. In the right hand column (alpha) set it to a convenient number 0= completely transparent 255= opaque
8. Name your new color. Exit the new material screen.
9. Select your new material to associate it with the part.
10. Exit out of the pop up boxes. The object may not show transparent on the preview, but will show transparency in the sim.

Note: this is for FS2004 only. FSX does transparency differently.

Jimd
 
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Thank you both.........Jdhaenens, followed step by step... and why din´t I do this before?????...to new at this I guess. Am at the office right now but tonight when I get home I´ll upload the object I just made and try it in the Simm.

Gracias Amigo:wave:
 
Jimd and Felix...........Worked, made a transparent box following inst. and behold it is transparent allright......thanks again.....
This is like a monster killing game......you move on and find a monster, you kill it, move on and right up front there is another!!!!!!....much fun and some frustration but a battle anyway!!!!!....so I put some objects together and added the transparent box to them.....BooooM...they all became transparent!!!!!!!....
I´ll takle this new monster on sunday!!!.........:rolleyes:
 
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